Sliding shoe for furniture.



W. T. EIGHT & G. W. HIGHT SLIDING SHOE FOR FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED 0OT.16, 1912.

Patented Oct. 20, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFF cE;

WILLIAM T. BI -HT, OF BOSTON, AND GEORGE W. EIGHT, JR, OF QUINCY, MASSACHU- SETTS.

sLIn'InG snon ronru'nmrnnn Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLiZAM T. HIGHT and GEORGE W. Hrerrr, J r., both citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of Boston, in the countyrof Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, and Quincy, in the county of Norfolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sliding Shoes forFurniture,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoes, casters or similar supports for furniture, and its 'object is to provide a shoe or base of thischar- 'acter which will be safeguarded against breakage from the knocks or blows to which the article is likely to be subjected in use, notwithstanding the shoe may be made of fragile or brittle material.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate one embodiment of the invention, Figure l is a vertical central section, partly in elevation, of the device applied to the leg of a piece of furniture; Fig. 2 is a vertical central section, partly in elevation, showing one form of connection between the stem and the cushion presently to be described; and Fig. 3 isa plan .view of the shoe shown in Fig. 1.

In furniture shoes made of fragile ma terial, such as glass, rigidly and inflexibly secured to the article of furniture resting thereon, it frequently happens that a lateral knock or blow on the unyielding shoe, or a blow on the bottom due to bringing the piece of furniture too forcibly down on the floor, will break orcrack the shoe, and the principal object of our invention is to obviate I this danger. To, this end we connect, the shoe and the fitting by which the device is fastened to the article of furniture by a yielding or elastic cushion, which will'tak'e up the shock of a blow in any direction on the shoe, and allow the shoe to yield sufiiciently under such knocks as it is likely to receive to avoid breaking-the shoe.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

a represents a glass furniture shoe or floor slide, which may have an desired exterior form or contour common y' found in such articles; as herein shown it is in the form of a flattened knob. In the upper side of the shoe is a cavity a, which is preferably substantially hemispherical in form. V

The fitting bywhich the shoe s attached i to .thearticle of furniture, as herein shown,

consists of a metal stem 1), the upper end of which is of the well known grip-neck type struction, and the lower end of which is provided with a head 6', which may be'a washer, disk, or other suitable head, fastened to the end of the stem.- The shoe a and stem 6 are connected by a cushion c of rubber, rubber compositiomor other ielding, elastic material. The headed en of stem 6 is preferable secured to the cushion c by being embedded therein, as shown in Fig. 2. The cushion c is substantially hemispherical in shape to conform to the cavity a, and is madeslightly larger in diameter than the cavity, so that when forced into the cavity itwill be held under compression. .The

Patented Oct. 20, 1914.

Application filed October 16, 1912. Serial No. 726,026.

for engaging caster sockets of usual contendency of the compressedrubber cushion shoe in either direction. The leg of an article of furniture is shown at d toindicate the position of the device in use. a

We claim:

1. A furniture support comprisinga shoe provided with aihemispherical cavity on its upper side,'a hemispherical cushion of yielding material normally having a larger diameter than said cavity and held in said cavit under compression, and a fitting by whic the shoe. may be attached to an articlefof furniture, having its end secured within said cushion.

2. A furniture support comprising a shoe provided with a cavity in its upper side, a cushion of yielding material held wholly within said cavity, and a fittingby which the shoe may be attached ,to an article of furniture having a head embedded 111 said cushion.

3. A furniture support comprismg ashoe, a fitting by which said shoe may be attached to an articleof furniture, and a cushion of rem'ovably secured by its other end toan ar- 10 yielding material in which one end of said ticle of furniture. v 1 fitting 1s embedded, seated wholly within a Signed by us at Boston, Massachusetts cavity in said shoe'. this 14th day of October 1912.

4. A furniture support comprising a shoe WILLIAM T. HIGHT. formed with a .cavlty in itsfupper .side, a GEORGE W. HIGHT, JR. cushion of yielding material seated entirely Witnesses: within said cavity, and a'fittin embedded. ROBERT GUsHMAN,

at one end in said cushion and a apted to be CHARLES D; WOODBERRY.) 

